Maine Memory Network

Historic Hallowell - Lineman's Journal

"… On Day 4 500,000 people from all over the United States came to help. We were without power and it also didn't look any better."

Historic Hallowell - Johnson Brothers and Their Shoe Factory

"… Frank Eisentein, the Vice President of DESCO, stated that, “None of us wanted to see the ship go down, but we can not, and will not, stand for…"

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"… worst floods that I think ever happened in the State of Maine. There were people who couldn’t even leave their own home’s because the water was up…"

Surry by the Bay - Late Twentieth Century

"For several years in the 1980s, Surry's Volunteer Police Force, complete with cruiser, uniforms and badges, patrolled the town."

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Aviation

"Local police offers guarded Lindbergh's plane, "Spirit of St. Louis", in which he made his historic flight across the Atlantic Ocean only two months…"

Highlighting Historical Hampden - Riverside Park

"… employed a stable of security guards, as well as police officers Fred Flynn and Harry Edgecomb, available to escort any riffraff from the park as…"

Portland Press Herald Glass Negative Collection - Crime & Disaster - Page 1 of 2

"He was imprisoned in Augusta, where New York police subsequently discovered that Kirby was the missing murderer of Lillian White of Brooklyn, NY."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Davenport Memorial and City Hall

"City Hall had a courtroom, a marshal's office, a judge's office, and a police matron's office. The City Hall is still used for meetings and official…"

Life on a Tidal River - Bangor Man Rats Out Brady Gang - Page 1 of 2

"… by their response, Shep contacted the Maine State Police and it was the State Police who called in the FBI."

Lincoln, Maine - Railroads

"… a used boxcar was once used as a jail when the police were in dire need. The railroad was important to Lincoln's history because it connected the…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - Bath Savings Institution and Hyde Block

"William Lawrence was the only police officer in the City of Bath to ever be shot and killed on duty."

Bath's Historic Downtown - Columbian Block

"One of them was Officer Merrill of the Bath Police Department. He was the first to recognize the tragic fire in 1895, from the outside of the theatre…"

Scarborough Historical Society & Museum

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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Brothers of the Civil War

"… of mounted citizens, a detachment of the Police and a battalion of the 5th Regiment.” The Portland Brass Band accompanied them and crowds cheered…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… also subsidized the fire department and police department. Eventually it provided the first street and traffic lights."

Eastern Maine Medical Center

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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington

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